Dan Gillmor16h ago

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

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Show threadJohn de Largentaye14h ago

@dangillmor headline writers have already demonstrated maximum contempt for journalists.

I won’t mind if Google can provide a more accurate summary than the click- and rage-bait headlines that publications favor these days.

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@jlargentaye @dangillmor
point is not to defend clickbait or rage-bait. but alphabet inc may put those baits into extreme with a.i. generated garbage.
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